Aims
- Help students understand the importance of context for youth ministry;
- Provide
students with a detailed contextual understanding of the issues
associated with many inner-city estate communities and / or suburban
youth cultures;
- Equip
students to know where to look for help in understanding and reflecting
on issues they will subsequently encounter in their studies, youth work
and ministry;
- Develop a
critical and detailed awareness and understanding of the complex social
dynamics of life and relationships associated with living in an
inner-city estate community or suburban middle-class setting;
- Re-evaluate,
alongside theological and ministerial, studies, their understanding of
the Kingdom of God amongst the marginalised and outcasts of contemporary
urban or suburban context.
Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing this module will be able to:
1.
Demonstrate critical and detailed awareness and understanding of the
complex social dynamics related to living in an urban or suburban
context;
2. Assess the opinions of experts, commentators and practitioners with whom these subject are associate
3. Relate these understandings to their theological and spiritual studies.
The module will call for the successful student to demonstrate:
4. Ability to work individually;
5. Ability to work collaboratively in small groups;
6. Written presentation skills;
7. Oral presentation skills;
8. Individual initiative and research skills.
Syllabus
This
is an apologetics module and as such equips the students to critically
appraise the context in which they are ministering and seeking the share
the Gospel. Through a focus both on general issues in apologetics as
well as specific contemporary questions that are likely to be faced by
young with whom the students are ministering the module helps to develop
thinking around how the Gospel might address the key questions arising
out of ministry contexts.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy
- 40 hours: Class contact
- 80 hours: Directed private study
Teaching
/ learning appraoches combine participative reflection in class,
assessment arrangements, and direct input to facilitate student
achievement of the learning outcomes identified for this module.
Interactive and participative class-work is facilitated y staff members,
who offer appropriate input which may include the use of multimedia
presentations.
Specified preparatory reading (maximum 8 hours per week) will introduce students to the topics covered.
Assessment Scheme
- Individual Essay: 3000 words
- Gospel Presentation: 30 minutes
See further details in main body of text.
Assessment Weighting
Coursework 100%